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CecilC

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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,04:47

Hi all,

I'm new to DSL. Lots of searching hasn't yet produced a solution but it seems like it should be easy, a duh moment.

I've got a old laptop (Compaq 1590), and a wirelss card, a Proximn/Orinico Gold. DSL 1.4 knows the card is there (dmesg and lspci show that). The modprobe ath_pci at boot loads the module with no more than the normal complaints and ath0 is created.

Except it doesn't work when I try bring it up. "cardctl info" says there is no card it knows about in the slot. lspci knows all about it. It works in Puppy Linux so I know the card is good and madwifi supports it. Sure enough there was a hint in one of the log files about a missing "hal" (if memory serves and it may not).

It may be a red herring but when Puppy Linux configures the card there are log messages about hardware queues and those don't show up on the DSL logs.

Any advice?

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,06:27

My Orinoco Gold card works out-of-the-box..
Are you on a dhcp network?

I can usually run lwconfig from the DSLPanel,
enter in my channel, essid, and wep key
( in the format AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF:GG:H:II:JJ:KK:LL:MM )
and it connects to my wireless router no problem.

Once connected, make sure to backup the myiwconfig.sh file in /opt,
and add the line 'myiwconfig.sh to your /opt/bootlocal file,
for the next time you reboot your system..
It's automatic from there with every reboot.

and mine shows up as eth0, not ath0

Let us know

73
ke4nt

CecilC

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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,20:32

I don't think I'm going to get if/iwconfig to work if 'cardctl' won't see the card. lspci sees an Atheros AR5211 after booting. ifconfig -a sees an ath0 with the mac address and IRQ, etc. ifconfig ath0 or pump -i ath0 returns a short error and dmesg shows
ath0: unable to reset , hal status 3
for each attempt to configure it by hand.

In puppy linux the modprobe ath_pci is in the rc.local (mine) and is the last thing done. In DSL, the modprobe or insmod is happening much sooner in the boot up. I think that might be a clue.

Thanks.

CecilC

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Posted: Aug. 20 2005,02:46

Following up my own post,

I'm guessing that the madwifi module in DSL 1.4 isn't current enough for my card. More than a quess. I'm working on compiling the latest madwifi on DSL (hard drive install) for DSL. I've got the gcc.dsl installed and gnu-util.dsl and the kernel-source.dsl and the madwifi driver source. make burps up errors suggesting maybe the kernel source isn't there.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 20 2005,02:54

Perhaps a different version of the Orinoco Gold?

Many posts here about success with a true Orinoco Gold..

There is a kernelsource.dsl in the system area of the repository.
That should help you in your quest.

73
ke4nt

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